[csw-maintainers] ClamAV - to include the (obsolete) signatures or not?

[James Lee]

On 13/12/08, 15:42:06, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote regarding Re: 
[csw-maintainers] ClamAV - to include the (obsolete) signatures or not?:

> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:28:13PM +0100, Peter Bonivart wrote:
> >
> > Maybe it's not worth the trouble to save 15 MB of download with todays
> > connections, web caches and local distribution and so on?

> well, it still would be worth it in the general case. but for a package
> that by definition will be obsolete within a few weeks... not so much.

It's superseded in hours and it's obsolescence is progressive thereafter.

Having an up-to-date virus database is what clamav is about.




James.